The Las Vegas Sun reports that a middle school teacher has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Clark County School District for allegedly holding her against her will in a room and forcing her to take an “invasive” drug test.
Continue reading...According to IndependentMail.com, the Pickens County School Board is considering adopting a policy that would subject all Pickens County School District employees to random drug testing.
Continue reading...A Pennsylvania federal district court has granted summary judgment in favor of three district officials, dismissing an instructional aide’s suit claiming school district officials had violated her First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights when she was detained and subjected to a breathalyzer test.
Continue reading...The Associated Press reports on BloombergBusinessweek.com that teacher evaluations will be kept secret from most taxpayers after state lawmaker’s passed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s bill, giving a major victory to teachers unions, who opposed wider disclosure of the evaluations.
Continue reading...Complying with a recent state appellate court order, New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott released performance ratings for 17,666 of its more than 70,000 teachers that are based on student test scores and sociological variables, says Bloomberg.
Continue reading...The Iowa Court of Appeals has ruled that a school district was not required under the state’s open records act to disclose employee disciplinary records. The appellate court concluded that the records sought fell within an exception requiring that “personal information in confidential personnel records of public bodies” be kept confidential.
Continue reading...The Mississippi Court of Appeals, in a 5-4 en banc decision, has ruled that a school board’s decision to terminate a teacher after she refused a school district official’s request to submit to a drug test pursuant to the district’s drug and alcohol policy was not arbitrary or capricious.
Continue reading...A new Pennsylvania law requiring public and private school employees who are arrested or convicted of serious crimes to report those arrests or convictions to their employers and the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has taken effect, says the Patriot-News. The law expands the list of crimes that permanently disqualify people from school employment.
Continue reading...According to KITV ABC 4, the State of Hawaii has agreed to end implementation of its random drug testing policy for teachers, for which it had negotiated in a 2007 contract. Although the teachers had agreed to the contract, which included the random drug testing program along with pay increases, the Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA) has opposed the policy since the contract was signed.
Continue reading...The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, has ruled that performance rankings of thousands of public school teachers, known as Teacher Data Reports (TDR), are subject to public disclosure, says the New York Times. The United Federation of Teachers (UFT), representing its member teachers, plans to appeal the ruling to the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court.
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